[mythtv-users] mythbuntu 9.10 / myth 0.22 & vdpau

Peter Lord peter at plord.co.uk
Wed Oct 7 19:50:10 UTC 2009


On Wednesday 07 Oct 2009 18:20:03 Johnny wrote:
> > However, I'm not sure I can do this .. the mythbuntu myth packages depend
> > on nvidia-185-libvdpau.
> >
> > So, if I try to remove it (ready to execute the nvidia installer), the
> > package system wants to remove all of myth :-(
> 
> Yeah this is a challenge. As I understand it the way they are packaged
> you basically have to use the same version that the mythtv package was
> compiled against. In Jean-Yves repository he has followed nvidia's
> advice and made them separate so that you can switch drivers without
> having to reinstall mythtv. He also has the all the recent nvidia
> drivers there. You may want to give his repository a try:
> http://avenard.org/media/Ubuntu_Repository/Ubuntu_Repository.html. He
> basically follows mythbuntu with very minimal changes.

Great, thanks.  I used to use the 0.21-fixes until I re-installed ...

So now I have Jean-Yves's trunk + nvidia 190.36 ... amazingly myth just 
started up as normal after the upgrades !

However, no change to the nvidia playback :-(


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